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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 20, 2016 - 08:51pm PT
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I had a friend who wanted to be a police officer. He had to go through all sorts of testing and evaluation. I saw some of the paperwork, and it looked rather thorough. My friend was rejected. His temperament and short fuse would not have been conducive to the level, clear head that a police officer needs to have.
Maybe in some departments they just check for a pulse, and then hand the new guy a gun.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Jun 20, 2016 - 11:53pm PT
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What an idiot.
Props to ever killed him.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jun 21, 2016 - 12:10am PT
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Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world.
After a fashion. They also still commonly hire witch doctors, so not exactly your typical muslim nation.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Jun 21, 2016 - 04:49am PT
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I'll take a witch doctor over the majority of useless pill pushers over here (at $240 for 10 minutes)
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jun 21, 2016 - 09:45am PT
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An Invitation to Lemming's Landing
Politicians, lobbyists, mass shooters, and zealots,
Pedophiles and corporations selling guns and bullets,
There's a place that you can be,
Satisfied and worry free,
There's an open invitation for all those so repellent,
Step right up and feel the breeze,
No one cares if you're a sleaze,
It's your chance to be forgiven,
For the sh#t you pulled while livin,'
You can go out on your feet instead of on yer' knees,
So step right up now all you buggers,
To Lemmings Landing and meet the sluggers,
Step right up to the edge,
No back room deals to hedge,
Your admission has been paid by all the souls you've made to suffer,
Lemming's Landing is there there for all you partners in greed,
And there's never enough power to satisfy a politician's need,
For every psychotic killer,
And sociopath who loves a thriller,
The drop is long enough to think of what you've done before you bleed,
Now you've earned your invitation to launch from Lemming's Landing,
So step right up and step right off it isn't too demanding,
Now drop yer' cocks and grab yer' socks,
There's sharks down there below the rocks,
We'll give a little push so there's no misunderstanding.
-bushman
06/21/2016
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 21, 2016 - 06:57pm PT
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Univision has gotten an interview with an anonymous latino man who claims to have been Omar Mateen's gay lover on numerous occasions. He says he connected with Mateen using the website Grindr.
The man says that after a homosexual menage a' trois in which Mateen participated, one of the other participants, who was Puerto Rican, admitted to Mateen that he was HIV positive.
The man in the interview said that the attack was revenge against Puerto Rican gay men, and was not related to Islam or jihadist terrorism.
The attack took place during a latin-themed event at the nightclub.
http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Univision-Omar-Mateen-gay-lover-of-Orlando-8316344.php
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Shetville , North of Los Angeles
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Jun 21, 2016 - 07:04pm PT
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Maybe he figured he had aids and he might as well get it over with...Live by the sword , die by it...
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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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Jun 21, 2016 - 07:18pm PT
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My understanding is that Mateen's father is the one who is the religious fanatic, although he is not necessarily engaged with, or supporting of violent jihad.
His father was very strict about religion, so Mateen had to remain deeply closeted all these years.
A positive test for HIV would have suggested to Mateen's father that his son was, in his view, an abomination before Allah.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 21, 2016 - 10:31pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Bill Maher comes through with the goods, and eats the pompous ass Rose for lunch at the same time.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 21, 2016 - 10:48pm PT
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^^^ charlie rose is great at bringing out the words we want to hear.
It IS a very serious point that needs to be brought up eveyday to everyone!
i like how comics can get away with saying what ever they want..
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jun 21, 2016 - 11:07pm PT
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charlie rose is great at bringing out the words we want to hear
Charlie's first words were "Christians too.." That's what really got Maher going. For the rest of the "interview" Rose couldn't get a word in edgewise. He simply could not keep up. Maher rolled over Rose like a bulldozer and I enjoyed the hell out of it.
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Majid_S
Mountain climber
Karkoekstan
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Jun 21, 2016 - 11:25pm PT
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may be Pissed of at Latino men for some unknown facts
Not Clearly a hate crime. Not Clearly an act of terrorism
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jun 22, 2016 - 01:26am PT
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I'll take a witch doctor over the majority of useless pill pushers over here (at $240 for 10 minutes)
The last encounter I had with one was a bit different than you might think.
I was coming back to the apartment building I was staying in after a day of working at the US embassy in Jakarta (was there as a contractor). The apartment building was a high rise where most of the embassy personnel lived and I was crashing in a friend's apartment for my stay. We pull up to the compound and all the guards, maids and cooks are milling around the gate unwilling or to go in and all of us embassy staff also can't go in.
The word was that the girlfriend of one of the residents had called a witch-doctor to curse his apartment after she found out he was bringing in call girls and 'masseuses'. Such curses are still taken seriously so all the building employees vacated the premises pronto once the word got out the witch doctor had done his deed and left. It was a pretty big deal as a lot of the higher-ups on the embassy staff couldn't get into the building and were pissed. The head security guard finally had to hunt around and find a 'more powerful' witch doctor (so we were told) to hightail it down and take the curse off which took around two hours.
Turns out my friend was the culprit and caught endless sh#t from everyone for the next month. So, yeah, not your 'my back hurts' sort of witch doctor...
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Escopeta
Trad climber
Idaho
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Jun 22, 2016 - 05:26am PT
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Its fun to dissect and discuss but in the end, if you haven't figured out that our government - and I use that term to include BOTH elected parties equally - uses crisis as a platform for motivating the citizens to hand over more control and more money to then to fight real or imagined boogeymen then you really aren't paying attention.
And if it happens as a result of the citizenry fighting against each other while begging the government to "DO Something!", all the better.
It is the cycle that has been repeating itself since, well....actually since the end of alcohol prohibition. You can set your watch by the issue du jour and the resulting hue and cry for government to 'save' us.
Some of you complain about the prospect of a totalitarian regime and don't even realize you're the foot-soldiers.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Jun 22, 2016 - 05:40am PT
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What exactly should be done? I'm in the do nothing camp. Terrorists really cause very few deaths and there is not much more that can be done anyway, that's why it's called terrorism.
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Jun 22, 2016 - 06:12am PT
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Its hard to understand, Bob. As if there's a magical solution by adopting a silly rightwing phrase.
At it's root is a simplistic world view where declaring war on an entire religion makes sense, which of course, it doesn't.
Most who believe this nonsense question the President's religious beliefs (he's a Muslim!), too.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Jun 22, 2016 - 06:27am PT
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Obama's our first Muslim president? Wow. We have come a lot further than I had previously thought.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 22, 2016 - 06:38am PT
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Its hard to understand, Bob. As if there's a magical solution by adopting a silly rightwing phrase.-Crankster
At it's root is a simplistic world view where declaring war on an entire religion makes sense... -Crankster
You couldn't be more wrong on this point (these points), Crankster. But unfortunately I don't have the time this morning. Just look at the hyperbole in your own three sentence post there. That is a cue. Also, just point to anything Maher said there in the aforementioned link by Ksolem that was incorrect. (btw, it's old piece, I watched it last year I think it was, maybe posted it up too.) it's a shame this issue is splitting the liberal eft. What symbolizes this split is now the iconic exchange between Ben Affleck and Maher/Harris. I'm sure you've seen it. If you haven't, you need to. Right now as a lib you are clearly speaking from the Affleck side. Afflect is ignorant in this exchange (embarrassingly ignorant) and it's clear to anyone who's invested time over many years in comparative religions and many years getting to know Islam specifically and Abrahamic religions generally - quite apart from conservative politics, Republicans and Fox News. On this one you and other libs need to look at your own experience, your own state of knowledge and beliefs.
Spend ten years plus studying the three Abrahamic religions, you won't get more than a couple years into it and you too will be distinguishing fundamentalist type from secular type, liberal type, reformed type, etc across all three branches. It is not just a right-wing phrase - instead it's religious scholarship nomenclature that your "right-wing" opponent has seized upon, picked up on, and is now using effectively to club the left with.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vln9D81eO60
Please, don't be an Affleck on this important subject. Watch it a dozen times if you have to. In your political partisan world it might be a "right-wing" issue but in the wider 'science and belief' world it is a fundamentalist vs progressive secular reform issue where an illiberal left section is far behind the movement as conservative right.
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